Goals aplenty and lots of hooking and blocking as St Colman’s took advantage of the strong wind in a dominant second half to take the spoils – their first since 2008 and their sixth title in all.

Galway and Royal Dublin’s Barton Shield sides will provide the high quality golf in today’s AlG Cups and Shields National finals but all the excitement may well come from the minnows in the Pierce Purcell Shield semi-finals at Carton House.